Lunar update dying

[Richard Pyne]

I have two machines where "lunar update" just seems to die 
after:

Preparing to install moonbase.tar.bz2 ...
+ removing module from dependency listing and configs
+ updating lunar state files after module removal
Removed module: moonbase
Extracting moonbase.tar.bz2 ...
Created /var/log/lunar/install/moonbase-20051001.02
Creating /var/log/lunar/md5sum/moonbase-20051001.02
+ updating lunar state files after module installation
+ Updating module index file...
+ Generating a new depends cache...


Trying it again with "lunar -d update" gives:

Creating /var/log/lunar/md5sum/moonbase-20051001.03
++ add_module (moonbase installed 20051001.03 38M)
+ updating lunar state files after module installation
++ lock_file (/var/state/lunar/packages.backup)
++ lock_file (/var/state/lunar/packages)
++ unlock_file (/var/state/lunar/packages)
++ unlock_file (/var/state/lunar/packages.backup)
++ create_module_index ()
+ Updating module index file...
++ temp_create (module.index)
++ installed_version (moonbase)
++ Quick generating $MODULE_INDEX...
++ installed_version (moonbase)
++ lock_file (/var/state/lunar/module.index)
++ unlock_file (/var/state/lunar/module.index)
++ temp_destroy (/tmp/lunar.lget.32748.moonbase.IhdttT7834)
++ create_depends_cache()
+ Generating a new depends cache...
++ temp_create (depends.cache)
++ installed_version (moonbase)


At this point "top" shows no active processes and "ps auxw" 
shows:

root      8947  0.2  2.8   4208  2704 pts/0    SN+  20:55   0:00 
/bin/bash /sbin/lunar update
root      8951  0.2  2.7   4120  2616 pts/0    SN+  20:55   0:00 
/bin/bash /sbin/lin moonbase
root      8957  0.2  2.7   4096  2592 pts/0    SN+  20:55   0:00 
/bin/bash /sbin/lget moonbase
root      8962  4.7  4.6   5904  4404 pts/0    SN+  20:55   0:18 
/bin/bash /sbin/lget moonbase
root     16531  2.8  5.1   6548  4872 pts/0    SN+  20:57   0:07 
/bin/bash /sbin/lget moonbase
root     20844  0.0  1.2   3832  1196 pts/0    SN+  20:58   0:00 
perl


I tried the process in "man lcrash" but it hasn't helped.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

--Richard